The ground was frozen following the many days of below freezing temperatures, but as the day progressed, the frost came out of the soil at Holmescales Activity Centre for the Lakes Grass Track racing Club's January trial that attracted 62 entries, with all bar four riders completing the four laps of ten sections.One of the attractions...
As long as there is no serious deterioration in the weather - and the forecast actually suggests it is going to get warmer - the next trial by the Lakes Club which is on Sunday, January 12 at Holmscales, which will be flagged from Preston Patrick on the Crooklands to Kendal road, should go ahead without...
Not unexpectedly, Sunday's Turner Trial by the Bassenthwaite Club has been cancelled due to the weather conditions. Unfortunately this is the second successive year the trial has been called off; the approach roads have a coating of ice and snow with more snow forecast....
If a trial happened to be near flowing water on New Year's Day, 2025 , at just about anywhere in the UK, then there would have been a good chance the event would have be cancelled or postponed, for the New Year's Eve day and night saw some of the heaviest rainfall for a long time.However,...
As we are about to enter 2025, here's a quickkie regarding the events for January.As always, Cumberland County open the year with their New Year's Day trial on Wednesday which will be at Nord Vue, Armathwaite and flagged from the A6 between Penrith and Carlisle. This is an enter in advance trial with entries closing via...
Fun in the mud, may well be headline to this trial report when the article finally makes it onto the internet, for it was mud that was the prime ingredient together with typical Cumbria rocks in the soil that the 53 riders in the Barrow Club's Boxing Day Fun Trial had to contend with over the...
It being Christmas, well it will be in a couple of days, now is a good time to thank everybody for supporting this Northern Centre ACU website, which came into being back in late April, 2022.In those two and a half years, there have been 360 posts, all of which are still available through the many...
Cumberland County MCC have their New Year's day trial at Nord Vue, Armathwaite, Carlisle on Wednesday, January 1, the location of which is What3words : ///buck.pigtails.subjects At the request of the club they ask that you *****PLEASE READ IN FULL***** - the trial will have classes for Adult Solo Plus Youth A&B classes over two courses, Clubman and...
It's crucial when riding a trial that is known to be four laps of ten sections to ensure that each and every section is located within the marked route as a failure to miss a section, and to miss it four times, is going to make a mess of one's result no matter how well or...
This website, as the title suggests, is totally dedicated to the Northern Centre and all its related subjects within Cumbria. However, we've just received a fascinating communication that tells the history of the trials land known as Brookhouse Brickworks, where the Lancs County MCC run their events. Whilst Brookhouse village is outside the Cumbrian borders, many...